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American Universities in a Global Market

Clotfelter Charles T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226110479, ISBN: HB: 9780226110448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2012
512 pp., 23x15 cm, 85 tables, 72 line illus.

In higher education, the United States is the preeminent global leader, dominating the list of the world's top research universities. But there are signs that America's position of global leadership will face challenges in the future, as it has in ot...

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Completing College Rethinking Institutional Action

Tinto Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780226804521, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
283 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 tables

Even as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty years, it is still the case that nearly half of all college students in the United States will not complete their degree within six years. It is clear that much...

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Illusions of Equality Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850-1950

Buchanan Robert M.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685491, Gallaudet University Press, April 2012
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The working lives of Deaf Americans from the mid-1850s to the post-World War II era depended upon strategies created by Deaf community leaders to win and keep jobs through periods of low national employment as well as high. Deaf people typically soug...

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Education

Listen. Write. Present. The Elements for Communicating Science and Technology

Roberson Barnard Stephanie, St. James Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780300176278, Yale University Press, February 2012
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Even the best ideas have little value if they are not explained clearly, concisely, and convincingly to others. Scientists, engineers, health care professionals, and technology specialists become leaders in their fields not just by way of discovery,...

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Education

Conflicting Landscapes American Schooling / Alaska Natives

Bates Clifton, Oleksa Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9781578333967, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 35 halftones

This comprehensive illustrated volume presents a wide-ranging picture of the schooling of Alaska Native children from past to present. It explores the histories of changing philosophies of schooling and their effect on generations of Alaska Native st...

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Education

Southern Stalemate Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia

Bonastia Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226063898, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1959, Virginia's Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate. For five years, black children were left to fend for themselves while the courts decided if the county could continue to deny its citize...

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